Crazy Music and Program Choices

[dorispulaski]

You know them - quirky programs
Strange music choices
Freaky costumes that actually worked

I am craving these in a year where same-y sameness is getting to me. The 1990's RD's are definitely not helping

So exhibit One.

Mark Webster of Australia skates to the Nokia ringtone for his SP 2016-17



Please suggest other choices!

 

[TallyT]

My oh so loved Nelli Zhiganshina & Alexander Gazsi's Two from the Grave

and Kolyada's Nightmare Before Christmas


I assume we are not doing gala/exhibition/show programs otherwise the flood would drown out the competition ones

 

[Isk]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUjRWxDrW6o Samuel Contesti, La Vie en Rose & La Valse a mille temps 2011-2012 FP
Also his 2010-2011 SP to Hungarian march & 1812 overture

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8YxSJqcLyI Daisuke Takahashi, Blues for Klook, 2011-2012 FP

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeJFgyzmaAM Karolina Kostner, God of thunder, 2016-2017 SP

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKJbTRWrRco Michal Brezina, Codo drums, 2010-2011 SP

From 6.0 pretty much any program by Philippe Candeloro's. Let it be the Godfather sequence from 1994:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_MH3rcU7pc SP
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LElbwFd5X0w FS

Alexei Yagudin's 1998-1999 clown to Schnittke's Gogol-suite is very quirky, but if we only chose one, let it be
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqs1nNmOpok Nutrocker, 1999-2000 SP

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOdqMW6GHq0 an interesting idea of Timothy Goebel to skate in 2001 to 2001 space Odyssey

 

[dorispulaski]

I loved Zhiganshina & Gaszi, and particularly that Zombie program

And I was up for any program Mikhail Kolyada did


Ryan Bradley is the only skater I know who ever skated to
"Happy Birthday" Variations: Polka & Valse by: Kremerata Baltica, Gidon Kremer.

Pretty good skating, too!

 

[Isk]

David Liu's 1998 SP to You've got rhythm: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XGJ1Bt9Wbo
He was never a strong skater, also keep in mind his is 33 y.o. here.

 

[lileychristie]

Watch 26 year old man transform amazingly to a minion here

 

[Isk]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8R_XHHJsEw Steven Cousins's 1994-1995 FP, tribute to Olympics to Vangelis's Charoits of Fire, in the beginning the commentator explains what's it about

 

[elbkup]

Kalinka - Maria Sotskova Gala
(Personal in that my gram used to call me this when I was little)

- YouTube

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youtu.be

 

[jgg220]

I tried to find a video of Ksenia Makarova's 2011-12 Marilyn Monroe free program where she does a spin to the MGM closing title music even though it's not actually the end of the program, which made me howl laughing the first time I saw it during the 2011 GP, but the only video on YouTube was so low-quality that it's unwatchable.

Instead, I submit the Beier siblings' OD to polka "Like a Virgin." This may not be the craziest music/program choice ever, but it sure isn't near the bottom of the list!

- YouTube

Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

www.youtube.com

 

[elektra blue]

Watch 26 year old man transform amazingly to a minion here

his spagetti western is pretty crazy too

 

[dorispulaski]

The Yankee Polka based SD in the 2012-13 season produced a number of quirky programs, not just the "Like a Virgin Polka."


My favorite was Davis & White skating the Yankee Polka to music from the ballet Giselle - somehow the program was true both to the ballet and the polka!



In case you wondered why it is odd to cross a ballet with
the Yankee Polka Compulsory Dance, here is a typical presentation of the Yankee Polka CD. Yes, the pointed heels were a typical feature. And yes, this is current World Champion Evan Bates with his previous partner:

 

[dorispulaski]

I tried to find a video of Ksenia Makarova's 2011-12 Marilyn Monroe free program where she does a spin to the MGM closing title music even though it's not actually the end of the program, which made me howl laughing the first time I saw it during the 2011 GP, but the only video on YouTube was so low-quality that it's unwatchable.

Here she is - MGM music is there, but she was having a bad day for sure.

 

[dorispulaski]

As a compulsory, the YP brought the crazy:

Delobel & Schoenfelder do the YP as a sheriff & a saloon girl

 

[el henry]

Nowadays this would be not be considered unusual.

But 20 years ago, it was way different than anything else out there. And Dick Button was delighted.

Stephanie Rosenthal and Herbie Hancock's "Rockit"

 

[dorispulaski]

It's still amazing!

 

[PaulE]

@el henry . I loved that program from Stephanie and still do. Thanks for posting it.

 

[PaulE]

My oh so loved Nelli Zhiganshina & Alexander Gazsi's Two from the Grave

I just watched this dance and thought I should give it a standing ovation so I stood up in my kitchen and clapped. As I was clapping I saw a person in the audience at the short end of the arena who was wearing a yellow coat and cap and standing too. Then I realized that was me. It is unfortunate how soon we forget the good times.

 

[Diana Delafield]

I just watched this dance and thought I should give it a standing ovation so I stood up in my kitchen and clapped. As I was clapping I saw a person in the audience at the short end of the arena who was wearing a yellow coat and cap and standing too. Then I realized that was me. It is unfortunate how soon we forget the good times.

So of course I had to go back and watch again, only to watch the audience instead of the skaters, looking for someone cheering in a yellow coat and cap .

 

[PaulE]

So of course I had to go back and watch again, only to watch the audience instead of the skaters, looking for someone cheering in a yellow coat and cap .

I went back and watched it again after reading your comment. I really appreciated the close-up picture of Nelli's face at the start of the program.

Sorry to wander off topic but remembering that I was in Kent also brought back a couple of other fond memories related to Golden Skate. I remember meeting Doris and her lovely husband in the lobby of the hotel where we were staying. And I think Doris showed me how to make a cup of coffee in the Keurig coffee maker in the lobby—I had never used a pod coffee machine before. Thank you Doris and thank you for all the work you do on this blog.

 

[dorispulaski]

In the same.genre as Yagudin's Nutrocker" Daisuke Takahashi's "Cyber Swan"